rouletten.

Brit.

/ruːˈlɛt/,

/rʊˈlɛt/, U.S.

/ruˈlɛt/

Forms: 1600s–1700s rowlet, 1700s–1800s roulet, 1700s– roulette.

Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French roulette.

Etymology: < French roulette small wheel (1119 in Anglo-Norman as reuelette ), cycloid (1637 in a work by the mathematician M. Mersenne; in later use also denoting other similar curves), gambling game in which a spinning wheel is used (1726, although slightly earlier currency is implied by quot. 1724 at sense 3a; the use denoting the wheel in question (see sense 3b) is not paralleled in French until later: 1878), tool with a toothed or engraved wheel which impresses a design when rolled over a soft surface (although this is apparently first attested later: 1866) < rouelle small wheel (see rowel n.) + -ette -ette suffix. With the forms in -et, compare -et suffix¹.The form rowlet is perhaps influenced by rowel n., or could perhaps be taken as showing an independent formation < rowel n. + -et suffix¹ The following quot. apparently shows a different word (either in sense ‘small wheel’, or perhaps in sense ‘small role’):1567 G. Fenton tr. M. Bandello Certaine Tragicall Disc. f. 275^v They hadd preuented the malice of an vnconstant fortune, who in all delayes forgettes not to playe the ordynary rolet of her natural mobility [Fr. Sans attendre que fortune iouast le rollet de sa naturelle mobilité].

†1. A small wheel. Obsolete. rare.

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society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > parts of machines > wheel > [noun] > small

rowel1599

roulette1659

society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > vehicles according to means of motion > vehicle moving on wheels > [noun] > parts of vehicle moving on wheels > wheel > of specific type or position

cartwheelc1386

truckle1459

trundle1564

clog-wheel1575

trindle1594

coach-wheel1647

roulette1659

roller1763

horizontal wheel1794

castora1800

castor-wheel1805

artillery wheel1834

training wheel1848

trailing wheel1850

spider-wheel1868

front wheel1878

trailer1884

trendle1887

wire wheel1907

square wheels1924

jockey-wheel1952

1659 J. Leak tr. I. de Caus New Inventions Water-works 25 One or two Men with a Lever shall turn a Rowlet to which a strong Cord is made fast, which shall draw back the said peece.

a1734 R. North Life F. North (1742) 137 The Manner of the Carriage [of coal] is by laying Rails of Timber from the Colliery, down to the River,..and bulky Carts are made with four Rowlets fitting these Rails.

a1734 R. North Life F. North (1742) 294 Wherever there was like to be a Friction, a Roulet was placed to receive it.

2. Mathematics. The path traced by a point on a curve as it rolls without slipping over another curve or a line.Specific types of roulette are cycloids, epicycloids, hypocycloids, and involutes.

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the world > relative properties > number > geometry > curve > [noun] > generated by or related to a point > by revolution

cycloid1661

epicycloid1696

trochoid1704

involute figure or curve1706

roulette1708

evolute1753

epicycle1756

involute1796

hypocycloid1843

hypotrochoid1843

axoid1876

epicyclic1878

astroid1886

1708 Hist. Wks. Learned Feb. 81 Mr. de la Hire..gives us still a more general Method to reduce all Curve Lines to Roulettes by determining their Basis.

1836 J. M. F. Wright Algebraic Syst. Conic Sections xi. 202 An indefinite number of curves may be conceived as generated by a point in one curve, whilst that curve rolls on another... Curves thus formed are called by French writers Roulettes.

1879 G. Salmon Treat. Higher Plane Curves vii. 284 Roulettes or curves generated by a point on a rolling curve.

1937 National Math. Mag. 12 26 Every rhodonea can be generated as the roulette of a circle on a circle.

1997 J. V. Field Invention of Infinity ix. 228 His work on roulettes (the curves traced out by a point on the rim of a wheel rolling on another wheel or on a line) is apparently connected with problems involving gearing.

a. A gambling game in which a ball is dropped on to a spinning horizontal wheel containing numbered and coloured compartments, with the players betting on which compartment the ball will come to rest in. Cf. roly-poly n. 2a.European roulette wheels typically contain 37 compartments, numbered 0 to 36. American wheels have an extra number, 00. Bets are placed on the number, type of number (as even or odd, high or low), or colour (usually red or black) of the winning compartment.

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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > games of chance > roulette > [noun]

roulette1744

1724 Daily Jrnl. 27 Apr. 1/1 Two young Men fell out in the Street, call'd la Rue St. Andre, playing at a new Game of Hazard that is not prohibited, and call'd the Game de la Roulette.]

1744 A. Docultree (title) The ill effects of the game of rowlet, otherwise rowley-powley.

1745 Act 18 Geo. II c. 34 §1 A certain pernicious game called roulet or roly-poly is daily practised.

1797 Times 14 Dec. 3/1 The game of ‘roulette’ or E.O. was lately attempted to be introduced at a fashionable club in Pall mall.

1808 Sporting Mag. 30 26 The foreign games of Roulet and Rouge et Noir.

1860 Ld. Lytton Lucile ii. i The duke..turn'd to roulette, And sat down, and play'd fast, and lost largely.

1882 W. Ballantine Some Exper. Barrister's Life iv Roulette..was to be found at all the lower description of [gambling] houses.

1939 R. Chandler Big Sleep xii. 83 I was down at the Las Olindas, playing roulette at Eddie Mars's Cypress Club. I lost my shirt.

1969 J. Fredman Fourth Agency ii. 15 You fancy craps, roulette, blackjack, poker, chuck-a-luck?

2009 P. Leonard Trust Me xvi. 125 He pictured himself in a white tux, playing roulette at a casino in Monte Carlo.

b. The wheel used in this game. Cf. roulette wheel n. at Compounds b.

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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > games of chance > roulette > [noun] > centre part of table

roulette1818

1818 C. E. Dodd Autumn near Rhine 509 An anxious silence reigns, only interrupted by the rattling of the roulette.

1850 H. G. Bohn et al. Hand-bk. Games 348 He throws an ivory ball into the concavity of the Roulette, in a direction opposite to the movement which he has given to the movable bottom.

1887 J. B. Dayne In Name of Tzar vi. 70 The ball flew round the polished surface of the roulette like lightening.

1943 J. Dos Passos Number One v. 297 A roulette swinging past triangles, redblack redblack, slower, slower; red; black.

1999 M. Roshwald Transient & Absolute iii. 41 There is in a gambler a sober, yet intoxicating, realization that the ball eventually must fall in ‘his’ slot of the roulette.

c. In extended use. A game of chance; a lottery. Frequently with modifying word.Russian, Vatican roulette: see the first element.

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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > lottery or raffle > [noun]

lottery1567

rifling1569

raffle1734

lotto1787

draw1839

roulette1861

swindle1868

shake1877

shackle1881

1861 Dublin Univ. Mag. Sept. 367/2 The ball whizzes in the roulette of battle, and fortune hangs in suspense.

1902 Outing Oct. 76/1 The aeronaut simply went into the air and played roulette with fate and the winds.

1971 Jet 5 Aug. 9/1 Dymally accused the governor of ‘playing Reagan roulette with the health, education, taxes and jobs of millions of Californians by his cold budget slashing.’

1985 T. A. Bass Eudaemonic Pie v. 99 He..programmed the KIM [= Keyboard Input Monitor] to play roulette with three different sets of equations.

1996 Chicago Tribune 24 Nov. ii. 3/1 It is the result of DNA roulette. A child's genetic makeup is largely determined by chance.

2003 Sunday Herald (Glasgow) 26 Jan. 13/1 Speed dating, the much-hyped relationship roulette that has women meeting up to 25 potential partners in one night.

a. Engraving and Ceramics. A tool with a toothed or engraved wheel which impresses a design when rolled over a soft surface.

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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > printmaking > engraving > [noun] > engraving tools

pouncer1552

graving tool1591

pounce1598

puncheon1659

burin1662

eschoppe1662

graver1662

needle1662

point1662

style1662

sculpter1680

scalper1688

small chisel1749

roulette1806

engraver1821

dry-point1837

scooper1837

stylet1853

tint-tool1869

diamond-point1874

spit-sticker1909

bull-sticker1933

1806 Monthly Rev. May 92 These etchings are sometimes assisted by the roulette.

1835 Brit. Cycl. Arts & Sci. I. 508/1 A more expeditious way of multiplying the dots has been contrived in the instrument called a roulette, a toothed wheel, fixed to a handle which, by being rolled forcibly along the copper, produces a row of indentations.

1886 W. H. Holmes in Proc. Davenport Acad. Nat. Sci. 4 189 A part of the neck ornament was made by rolling back and forth a circular tool—a roulette—the edge of which was notched.

1915 A. Skinner Indians of Greater N.Y. vi. 121 The decoration was added..by marking it with a roulette on which figures were cut, or by scratching the figures in the wet clay.

1931 Brit. Mus. Q. 6 4 The portrait somewhat resembles a rough mezzotint, but has evidently been produced by the use of rocker and roulette.

2007 W. Ambrose in S. Bedford et al. Oceanic Explor. xiii. 217 Roulettes of this design would produce a grid pattern of tiled depressions separated by raised ribs in a soft material.

b. A similar tool used for making perforations or indentations in sheets of postage stamps.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > equipment > piercing or boring tools > [noun] > perforators

perforator1855

electric pen1858

roulette1867

1867 Philatelist 1 102 The next sort [of perforation]..is that not made by a fixed machine, but by what is called the roulette, or revolving wheel.

1881 F. A. Philbrick & W. A. S. Westoby Postage & Telegr. Stamps Great Brit. ii. i. 291 Whether the puncturing of the stamp was designed, or arose accidentally from the sharp edges of the roulette, cannot be stated.

1937 Pop. Mech. Mar. 49A/1 From the short straight cuts made by a roulette or tracing wheel to the elaborate serpentine roulettes found on the early stamps of Finland.

1996 M. Varki Philately for Young (2004) 96 Serpentine Roulette, a roulette consisting of wavy lines.

5. A small tube around which hair is rolled for curling; = pipe n.¹ 11. Now historical and rare.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the hair > implements used in styling the hair > [noun] > curling implement

crisping-iron?a1400

bodkin1580

curling-bodkin1610

curling-iron1632

curling-tongs1763

crisping-tongs1773

pinching iron1789

tongs1843

crumpling-irons1854

roulette1860

curler1887

waver1895

permanent waver1916

wand1962

1860 F. W. Fairholt Costume in Eng. (ed. 2) (Gloss.) at Roulettes To ‘put a wig in pipes’ was a phrase descriptive in the last century of a wig whose curls were kept in order by roulettes.

1874 Temple Bar 41 54 Their hair..is piled up in a wonderful pyramid of..rolls all so stiff that they stand alone without the aid of pads, roulets, puffs, or hair-pins.

1903 A. M. Earle Two Cent. Costume Amer. I. xi. 343 Roulettes or bilbouquettes for buckling a wig were little rollers of pipe clay.

6. An implement containing wheels or rollers, used for massage. Cf. roller n.¹ 9a. Now historical and rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > healing > medical appliances or equipment > other medical equipment > [noun] > instruments used in massage

flesh-glove1818

percussioner1887

roulette1887

switch1887

massager1940

massage roulette1969

1887 Therapeutic Gaz. 15 Sept. 580/1 The more or less complex rollers (roulettes), with which of late years electricity has been conjoined, as in Butler's roller, Stein's cylinder.

1888 H. W. Freeman Thermal Baths of Bath vi. 165 The roulette is an instrument of four or eight little wheels made of boxwood, which revolve in a handle; but practically it is proved that no instrument can compete with the human hand.

1896 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon at Pressions, in massage, methods of pressing or compressing the muscles, by means of the whole hand, the tips of the fingers, or the roulet.

1981 W. A. Jackson Victorian Chemist & Druggist 17 (caption) Two ivory and ebony massage roulettes and spatula.

Compounds

a. General attributive and objective (in sense 3), as roulette box, roulette game, roulette player, roulette system, etc.

ΚΠ

1822 Jackson's Oxf. Jrnl. 26 Oct. 2/3 His duty is to carry the roulette board upstairs.

1851 H. Mayhew London Labour I. 371/2 The raffler of the China ornaments produces a portable roulette box or table.

1906 U. Sinclair Jungle xxvi. 331 Afterward they drifted into a roulette-parlor.

1922 F. H. Martin S. Amer. from Surgeon's Point of View viii. 121 We drank tea, inspected the beach, watched the roulette players in the attractive casino.

1976 P. Cave High Flying Birds iv. 47 I once sold a foolproof roulette system to a professional gambler for 500 francs.

1977 Times 4 July 8/5 Although the inherent advantage to the casino on a roulette bet..is only 2.7 per cent, a player will lose approximately 21 per cent of all he may spend on..roulette chips.

2005 J. Swain Mr. Lucky (2007) xl. 307 The roulette game at the Palace was in full swing.

b. Designating equipment used in the game of roulette.

roulette ball n.

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1832 Times 21 June 3/6 Hazard and rouge-et-noir tables, ‘thimble rigs’, and roulette balls.

1926 A. Christie Murder of Roger Ackroyd iii. 26 Caroline visibly wavered..much as a roulette ball might coyly hover between two numbers.

2004 M. C. Smith Wolves eat Dogs 71 The two men lost ten or twenty thousand dollars on a bounce of the roulette ball.

roulette table n.

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1796 Oracle & Public Advertiser 9 Apr. 3/2 Mrs. B...has opened a Roulette Table in Wimpole-street.

1891 T. De W. Talmage Night Scenes City Life iii. 49 While we were there a young man came in, put his money down on the roulette-table, and lost.

1911 H. Macgrath Carpet from Bagdad iv. 71 He had loaned without security one hundred and fifty pounds at the roulette tables in Monte Carlo.

2003 R. Marcus Amer. Roulette 102 At a busy roulette table you might not have more than fifteen spins in an hour.

roulette wheel n.

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1833 Providence (Rhode Island) Patriot 4 May A scoundrel named Otis Spur kept the roulette wheel.

1956 M. Dickens Angel in Corner viii. 116 The back room..had for a time housed a roulette wheel, until there was a scare about a police raid.

2000 J. Simpson Mad World, my Masters (2001) v. 151 Every day the roulette wheels turned for him, and the blackjack and ving-et-un tables added their profits to his fortune.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	roulette
释义	rouletten. Brit. /ruːˈlɛt/, /rʊˈlɛt/, U.S. /ruˈlɛt/ Forms: 1600s–1700s rowlet, 1700s–1800s roulet, 1700s– roulette. Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French roulette. Etymology: < French roulette small wheel (1119 in Anglo-Norman as reuelette ), cycloid (1637 in a work by the mathematician M. Mersenne; in later use also denoting other similar curves), gambling game in which a spinning wheel is used (1726, although slightly earlier currency is implied by quot. 1724 at sense 3a; the use denoting the wheel in question (see sense 3b) is not paralleled in French until later: 1878), tool with a toothed or engraved wheel which impresses a design when rolled over a soft surface (although this is apparently first attested later: 1866) < rouelle small wheel (see rowel n.) + -ette -ette suffix. With the forms in -et, compare -et suffix¹.The form rowlet is perhaps influenced by rowel n., or could perhaps be taken as showing an independent formation < rowel n. + -et suffix¹ The following quot. apparently shows a different word (either in sense ‘small wheel’, or perhaps in sense ‘small role’):1567 G. Fenton tr. M. Bandello Certaine Tragicall Disc. f. 275^v They hadd preuented the malice of an vnconstant fortune, who in all delayes forgettes not to playe the ordynary rolet of her natural mobility [Fr. Sans attendre que fortune iouast le rollet de sa naturelle mobilité]. †1. A small wheel. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > parts of machines > wheel > [noun] > small rowel1599 roulette1659 society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > vehicles according to means of motion > vehicle moving on wheels > [noun] > parts of vehicle moving on wheels > wheel > of specific type or position cartwheelc1386 truckle1459 trundle1564 clog-wheel1575 trindle1594 coach-wheel1647 roulette1659 roller1763 horizontal wheel1794 castora1800 castor-wheel1805 artillery wheel1834 training wheel1848 trailing wheel1850 spider-wheel1868 front wheel1878 trailer1884 trendle1887 wire wheel1907 square wheels1924 jockey-wheel1952 1659 J. Leak tr. I. de Caus New Inventions Water-works 25 One or two Men with a Lever shall turn a Rowlet to which a strong Cord is made fast, which shall draw back the said peece. a1734 R. North Life F. North (1742) 137 The Manner of the Carriage [of coal] is by laying Rails of Timber from the Colliery, down to the River,..and bulky Carts are made with four Rowlets fitting these Rails. a1734 R. North Life F. North (1742) 294 Wherever there was like to be a Friction, a Roulet was placed to receive it. 2. Mathematics. The path traced by a point on a curve as it rolls without slipping over another curve or a line.Specific types of roulette are cycloids, epicycloids, hypocycloids, and involutes. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > geometry > curve > [noun] > generated by or related to a point > by revolution cycloid1661 epicycloid1696 trochoid1704 involute figure or curve1706 roulette1708 evolute1753 epicycle1756 involute1796 hypocycloid1843 hypotrochoid1843 axoid1876 epicyclic1878 astroid1886 1708 Hist. Wks. Learned Feb. 81 Mr. de la Hire..gives us still a more general Method to reduce all Curve Lines to Roulettes by determining their Basis. 1836 J. M. F. Wright Algebraic Syst. Conic Sections xi. 202 An indefinite number of curves may be conceived as generated by a point in one curve, whilst that curve rolls on another... Curves thus formed are called by French writers Roulettes. 1879 G. Salmon Treat. Higher Plane Curves vii. 284 Roulettes or curves generated by a point on a rolling curve. 1937 National Math. Mag. 12 26 Every rhodonea can be generated as the roulette of a circle on a circle. 1997 J. V. Field Invention of Infinity ix. 228 His work on roulettes (the curves traced out by a point on the rim of a wheel rolling on another wheel or on a line) is apparently connected with problems involving gearing. 3. a. A gambling game in which a ball is dropped on to a spinning horizontal wheel containing numbered and coloured compartments, with the players betting on which compartment the ball will come to rest in. Cf. roly-poly n. 2a.European roulette wheels typically contain 37 compartments, numbered 0 to 36. American wheels have an extra number, 00. Bets are placed on the number, type of number (as even or odd, high or low), or colour (usually red or black) of the winning compartment. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > games of chance > roulette > [noun] roulette1744 1724 Daily Jrnl. 27 Apr. 1/1 Two young Men fell out in the Street, call'd la Rue St. Andre, playing at a new Game of Hazard that is not prohibited, and call'd the Game de la Roulette.] 1744 A. Docultree (title) The ill effects of the game of rowlet, otherwise rowley-powley. 1745 Act 18 Geo. II c. 34 §1 A certain pernicious game called roulet or roly-poly is daily practised. 1797 Times 14 Dec. 3/1 The game of ‘roulette’ or E.O. was lately attempted to be introduced at a fashionable club in Pall mall. 1808 Sporting Mag. 30 26 The foreign games of Roulet and Rouge et Noir. 1860 Ld. Lytton Lucile ii. i The duke..turn'd to roulette, And sat down, and play'd fast, and lost largely. 1882 W. Ballantine Some Exper. Barrister's Life iv Roulette..was to be found at all the lower description of [gambling] houses. 1939 R. Chandler Big Sleep xii. 83 I was down at the Las Olindas, playing roulette at Eddie Mars's Cypress Club. I lost my shirt. 1969 J. Fredman Fourth Agency ii. 15 You fancy craps, roulette, blackjack, poker, chuck-a-luck? 2009 P. Leonard Trust Me xvi. 125 He pictured himself in a white tux, playing roulette at a casino in Monte Carlo. b. The wheel used in this game. Cf. roulette wheel n. at Compounds b. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > games of chance > roulette > [noun] > centre part of table roulette1818 1818 C. E. Dodd Autumn near Rhine 509 An anxious silence reigns, only interrupted by the rattling of the roulette. 1850 H. G. Bohn et al. Hand-bk. Games 348 He throws an ivory ball into the concavity of the Roulette, in a direction opposite to the movement which he has given to the movable bottom. 1887 J. B. Dayne In Name of Tzar vi. 70 The ball flew round the polished surface of the roulette like lightening. 1943 J. Dos Passos Number One v. 297 A roulette swinging past triangles, redblack redblack, slower, slower; red; black. 1999 M. Roshwald Transient & Absolute iii. 41 There is in a gambler a sober, yet intoxicating, realization that the ball eventually must fall in ‘his’ slot of the roulette. c. In extended use. A game of chance; a lottery. Frequently with modifying word.Russian, Vatican roulette: see the first element. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > lottery or raffle > [noun] lottery1567 rifling1569 raffle1734 lotto1787 draw1839 roulette1861 swindle1868 shake1877 shackle1881 1861 Dublin Univ. Mag. Sept. 367/2 The ball whizzes in the roulette of battle, and fortune hangs in suspense. 1902 Outing Oct. 76/1 The aeronaut simply went into the air and played roulette with fate and the winds. 1971 Jet 5 Aug. 9/1 Dymally accused the governor of ‘playing Reagan roulette with the health, education, taxes and jobs of millions of Californians by his cold budget slashing.’ 1985 T. A. Bass Eudaemonic Pie v. 99 He..programmed the KIM [= Keyboard Input Monitor] to play roulette with three different sets of equations. 1996 Chicago Tribune 24 Nov. ii. 3/1 It is the result of DNA roulette. A child's genetic makeup is largely determined by chance. 2003 Sunday Herald (Glasgow) 26 Jan. 13/1 Speed dating, the much-hyped relationship roulette that has women meeting up to 25 potential partners in one night. 4. a. Engraving and Ceramics. A tool with a toothed or engraved wheel which impresses a design when rolled over a soft surface. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > printmaking > engraving > [noun] > engraving tools pouncer1552 graving tool1591 pounce1598 puncheon1659 burin1662 eschoppe1662 graver1662 needle1662 point1662 style1662 sculpter1680 scalper1688 small chisel1749 roulette1806 engraver1821 dry-point1837 scooper1837 stylet1853 tint-tool1869 diamond-point1874 spit-sticker1909 bull-sticker1933 1806 Monthly Rev. May 92 These etchings are sometimes assisted by the roulette. 1835 Brit. Cycl. Arts & Sci. I. 508/1 A more expeditious way of multiplying the dots has been contrived in the instrument called a roulette, a toothed wheel, fixed to a handle which, by being rolled forcibly along the copper, produces a row of indentations. 1886 W. H. Holmes in Proc. Davenport Acad. Nat. Sci. 4 189 A part of the neck ornament was made by rolling back and forth a circular tool—a roulette—the edge of which was notched. 1915 A. Skinner Indians of Greater N.Y. vi. 121 The decoration was added..by marking it with a roulette on which figures were cut, or by scratching the figures in the wet clay. 1931 Brit. Mus. Q. 6 4 The portrait somewhat resembles a rough mezzotint, but has evidently been produced by the use of rocker and roulette. 2007 W. Ambrose in S. Bedford et al. Oceanic Explor. xiii. 217 Roulettes of this design would produce a grid pattern of tiled depressions separated by raised ribs in a soft material. b. A similar tool used for making perforations or indentations in sheets of postage stamps. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > piercing or boring tools > [noun] > perforators perforator1855 electric pen1858 roulette1867 1867 Philatelist 1 102 The next sort [of perforation]..is that not made by a fixed machine, but by what is called the roulette, or revolving wheel. 1881 F. A. Philbrick & W. A. S. Westoby Postage & Telegr. Stamps Great Brit. ii. i. 291 Whether the puncturing of the stamp was designed, or arose accidentally from the sharp edges of the roulette, cannot be stated. 1937 Pop. Mech. Mar. 49A/1 From the short straight cuts made by a roulette or tracing wheel to the elaborate serpentine roulettes found on the early stamps of Finland. 1996 M. Varki Philately for Young (2004) 96 Serpentine Roulette, a roulette consisting of wavy lines. 5. A small tube around which hair is rolled for curling; = pipe n.¹ 11. Now historical and rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the hair > implements used in styling the hair > [noun] > curling implement crisping-iron?a1400 bodkin1580 curling-bodkin1610 curling-iron1632 curling-tongs1763 crisping-tongs1773 pinching iron1789 tongs1843 crumpling-irons1854 roulette1860 curler1887 waver1895 permanent waver1916 wand1962 1860 F. W. Fairholt Costume in Eng. (ed. 2) (Gloss.) at Roulettes To ‘put a wig in pipes’ was a phrase descriptive in the last century of a wig whose curls were kept in order by roulettes. 1874 Temple Bar 41 54 Their hair..is piled up in a wonderful pyramid of..rolls all so stiff that they stand alone without the aid of pads, roulets, puffs, or hair-pins. 1903 A. M. Earle Two Cent. Costume Amer. I. xi. 343 Roulettes or bilbouquettes for buckling a wig were little rollers of pipe clay. 6. An implement containing wheels or rollers, used for massage. Cf. roller n.¹ 9a. Now historical and rare. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medical appliances or equipment > other medical equipment > [noun] > instruments used in massage flesh-glove1818 percussioner1887 roulette1887 switch1887 massager1940 massage roulette1969 1887 Therapeutic Gaz. 15 Sept. 580/1 The more or less complex rollers (roulettes), with which of late years electricity has been conjoined, as in Butler's roller, Stein's cylinder. 1888 H. W. Freeman Thermal Baths of Bath vi. 165 The roulette is an instrument of four or eight little wheels made of boxwood, which revolve in a handle; but practically it is proved that no instrument can compete with the human hand. 1896 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon at Pressions, in massage, methods of pressing or compressing the muscles, by means of the whole hand, the tips of the fingers, or the roulet. 1981 W. A. Jackson Victorian Chemist & Druggist 17 (caption) Two ivory and ebony massage roulettes and spatula. Compounds a. General attributive and objective (in sense 3), as roulette box, roulette game, roulette player, roulette system, etc. ΚΠ 1822 Jackson's Oxf. Jrnl. 26 Oct. 2/3 His duty is to carry the roulette board upstairs. 1851 H. Mayhew London Labour I. 371/2 The raffler of the China ornaments produces a portable roulette box or table. 1906 U. Sinclair Jungle xxvi. 331 Afterward they drifted into a roulette-parlor. 1922 F. H. Martin S. Amer. from Surgeon's Point of View viii. 121 We drank tea, inspected the beach, watched the roulette players in the attractive casino. 1976 P. Cave High Flying Birds iv. 47 I once sold a foolproof roulette system to a professional gambler for 500 francs. 1977 Times 4 July 8/5 Although the inherent advantage to the casino on a roulette bet..is only 2.7 per cent, a player will lose approximately 21 per cent of all he may spend on..roulette chips. 2005 J. Swain Mr. Lucky (2007) xl. 307 The roulette game at the Palace was in full swing. b. Designating equipment used in the game of roulette. roulette ball n. ΚΠ 1832 Times 21 June 3/6 Hazard and rouge-et-noir tables, ‘thimble rigs’, and roulette balls. 1926 A. Christie Murder of Roger Ackroyd iii. 26 Caroline visibly wavered..much as a roulette ball might coyly hover between two numbers. 2004 M. C. Smith Wolves eat Dogs 71 The two men lost ten or twenty thousand dollars on a bounce of the roulette ball. roulette table n. ΚΠ 1796 Oracle & Public Advertiser 9 Apr. 3/2 Mrs. B...has opened a Roulette Table in Wimpole-street. 1891 T. De W. Talmage Night Scenes City Life iii. 49 While we were there a young man came in, put his money down on the roulette-table, and lost. 1911 H. Macgrath Carpet from Bagdad iv. 71 He had loaned without security one hundred and fifty pounds at the roulette tables in Monte Carlo. 2003 R. Marcus Amer. Roulette 102 At a busy roulette table you might not have more than fifteen spins in an hour. roulette wheel n. ΚΠ 1833 Providence (Rhode Island) Patriot 4 May A scoundrel named Otis Spur kept the roulette wheel. 1956 M. Dickens Angel in Corner viii. 116 The back room..had for a time housed a roulette wheel, until there was a scare about a police raid. 2000 J. Simpson Mad World, my Masters (2001) v. 151 Every day the roulette wheels turned for him, and the blackjack and ving-et-un tables added their profits to his fortune. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). roulettev. Brit. /ruːˈlɛt/, /rʊˈlɛt/, U.S. /ruˈlɛt/ Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: roulette n. Etymology: < roulette n. Compare rouletting n. and earlier rouletted adj. 1. transitive. To perforate or indent (postage stamps) using a roulette (roulette n. 4b). ΚΠ 1871 Stamp-collector's Mag. 9 173/1 The issue took place on the 15th April, 1867. All four values were rouletted. 1906 Postage Stamps in Afr. III. 566 The stamps on these panes..were rouletted with the other variety of instrument to that used for rouletting the margin. 1987 Stamps Feb. 69 Stamps printed in sheets of 25, rouletted, printed in purple on white gummed paper. 2009 A. Atkins Sci. & Engin. Cutting viii. 199 Henry Adams first perforated British penny reds in 1850 (he had rouletted some sheets in 1848, i.e. made short discrete cuts in patterns between rows and columns of stamps to facilitate separation). 2. transitive. Chiefly Ceramics. To decorate (something) using a roulette (roulette n. 4a). Also: to make or transfer (a pattern) using a roulette. ΚΠ 1889 J. Pennell Pen Drawing & Pen Draughtsman 286 There are many devices adopted by every clever pen draughtsman,..for example, putting on in two minutes a flat tone with a brush, which will afterwards be rouletted by the photo-engraver. 1933 Hesperia 2 281 A circle of dots, roughly rouletted, with plain oval depressions supplanting palmettes. 1974 P. Webster in G. D. B. Jones et al. Roman Manch. 116 Bowl in light grey fabric; the upper zone above the groove was probably originally rouletted in several bands. 2000 Proc. Royal Irish Acad. C. 100 126 The pattern of curved lines was rouletted on to the exterior surface. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1659v.1871
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